South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung (R) meets with Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Masayoshi Son (L) at the Presidential House in Seoul on December 5, 2025.

South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung (R) meets with Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Masayoshi Son (L) at the Presidential House in Seoul on December 5, 2025.

 KIM Min-Hee

SoftBank CEO and AI investor Masayoshi Son said Friday that advanced artificial intelligence could surpass humans to the extent that "we become fish" and could even win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Meeting South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Seoul, Son, whose SoftBank is a major backer of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, described a future in which an advanced AI surpasses humans by a magnitude of 10,000.

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